I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

You have what you need to be happy.

Lisa Has a Heart of Diamond, She Never Thought She Would be Left in Silence again and again

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

I follow my own advice: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don't eat too much junk food. It leaves plenty of flexibility for eating an occasional junk food.

The way I see it Bill Elliott is just another way of saying fast

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.